Cattle-mark.



APATENTED APR. 21, 1903.

R. SCHUMANN.

CATTLE MARK.

APPLIGATION Hup DBO. s, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

RICHARD SCHUMANN,1F GREIZ, GERMANY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,104, dated April 21, 1903.

Application tiled December 8, 1902. Serial No. 134,340. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD SCHUMANN, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Greiz, Reuss, elder line, Germany, have j invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cattle-Marks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cattle-marks to be applied to the ears of cattle to properly indicate their ownership, and has for its object to provide an improved device of this class which will not be liable to easy displacement and which will give in its application and removal as little pain as possible to the animal.

With this object in View the invention consists in the improved cattle-mark hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure -1 is a view, partly in section and partly in elevation, of a cattle-mark constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a'plan viewv thereof. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of the working parts; and Fig. 4 isv aview,` partly sectional and partly in elevation, ill'us- .v

trating a modication.

occur in more than one ligure of the drawings.

a indicates the main body of the mark, consisting of a piece of sheet metal of the form of two disks joined by a neck and bent at the neck to bring the disks into parallelism at a short distance from each other.

box e, in which is placed a cork plate `g and a spiral spring d, lying parallel with'n the disk- In one disk.- is formed, preferably by stamping, a pan or` mal to be placed between the point b of the pin and the other disk, and when the ear is thus inserted pressure on the outside of the disks will force the point of the pin through the ear and the cork disk between the coils of the spring and against the plate in the bottom of the pan. The latter will prevent injury of the pin-point by contact with the bottom of the pan, and the wire of the spring will engage the barbed point and prevent its accidental or easy withdrawal.

As a substitute for the spring I may use a diskh of membrane, as shown in Fig. 4, which will permit the head to pierce it and will close over the barbed head to prevent its withdrawal.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A cattle-mark comprising a main body consisting of two disks of sheet metal joined by av neck and bent at the neck into parallel- ,ism with each other, a box formed in one bodydisk'opening inward, an elastic body in the :boina centrally-perforated metal disk cover- Y ingthey box, a cork disk on the metal disk, Like letters mark the same parts when they..

and a barbed pin projecting inward from the other body-disk in line with the perforation of the metal disk, substantially as described.

2. A cattle-mark comprising a main body consisting of two disks of sheet metal joined by a neck and bent at the neck into parallelism with each other, a box formed in one of Asaid body-disks opening inward, a cork plate in the bottom of the box, a spiral spring in the box parallel with the bottom thereof, a

metal disk covering the box and centrally per- ;forated,"a cork `disk superposed thereon, and

albarbedV pin projecting inwardly from the opposite body-disk in line with the center of the box, substantially as described:-`

In testimony whereofl affix-my signature.

R101-IARD scHUMANN.

Witnesses:

F. STEPHAN, A. BEATIGAM. 

